Anhangueridae


Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were among the last pterosaurs to possess teeth. A recent study discussing the group considered the Anhangueridae to be typified by a premaxillary crest and a lateral expansion in the distal rostrum. The same study presented a cladistic analysis, for which an "agreement subtree" was calculated. The Anhangueridae was found to be sister taxon to the large crested Tropeognathus.

Classification

Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of this group within Pteranodontia from Andres and Myers.
The cladogram below follows a topology recovered by Pêgas et al.. In the analyses, they reclassified all of the ornithocheirid genera into this family, and kept Tropeognathus as in a basal position.